CHAPTER XIX
"Let me go, I'm from the James family!" a shout made Jim stop his action of pouring wine for a nobleman, because it had happened before, when pouring wine was distracted by other things, and the glass was poured or even spilled, so Jim was told before he went to the banquet to serve the wine: when pouring wine, if there is any wind and grass, you must put the bottle up before anything else, even if someone wants to cut off your head.
Jim, who had erected the wine bottle, looked at the door of the banquet hall like everyone else at the banquet, and saw a man who had been tied up with flowers was being pulled into the banquet hall, and that person was wearing the uniform of an Imperial Soldier officer, as if he was still a captain officer. The man's mouth had been gagged with strips of cloth, and when he entered the banquet hall, he was torn off by the man who brought him over, and the man found an opportunity to shout loudly.
"Look, who have we caught?" one of the leading figures of the escort shouted loudly when he entered the hall, and suddenly a wave of excitement began to boil in the hall, and the nobles in the hall either laughed loudly or shouted loudly.
Jim quickly turned around at this time, filled the glass as fast as he could, and then stopped looking at the person who had been arrested, he knew that the nobles would drink a lot of wine at this time, and he had to make sure that the nobles' glasses were full of wine at all times.
It wasn't until Jim had poured three drinks from the nobles in charge of him that the atmosphere in the hall slowly cooled, but there were still people who burst into laughter.
In this atmosphere, Jim heard the voice of the person who was being escorted in again, and Jim took a look and saw that the man had been untied!
"I, the second son of the current patriarch of the James family, and the captain of the logistics brigade of the fortress of Versailles. If you can receive and arrange for me in a position worthy of me, there will definitely be no shortage of benefits for all of you at that time!" Jim found that the person who was escorted here, and now the tone of his speech was not the same as at the beginning, but seemed a little calmer, Jim guessed that this is the cultivation of the noble lord.
"Haha, you are a nobleman, we are all nobles, we all know the rules of the game of war, if you say that the benefits are great, then our service attitude ...... Wha," a drunken nobleman stood up with his glass in his glass, laughing as he said to the captive who claimed to be the James family. In fact, Jim has no impression of the James family at all, but he has heard others say that there are many big businessmen who are called James.
"Haha, will the benefits of our James family be small?" Jim began to feel that this captive didn't look like a captive anymore, was war really just a game?
"Good! That's good!" replied the leader of the nobles, and the other nobles around him suddenly stopped laughing. At this time, Jim and the other soldiers in the hall were called out of the banquet hall. Jim thought that the aristocratic lords should be talking about the so-called benefits.
"Hey, Jim!" a soldier Jim knew, suddenly holding a torch that he didn't know he was bringing there, and called out to Jim.
"Hey, Daniel, where did you come from? When they got closer, Jim found him with a bag full of things on his waist and a bag on his back, as well as blood on the tip of his spear!
"Jim, go to Versailles, get something, and the family won't have to live a crumpled life in the future!" Daniel took out a small bag from his close-fitting clothes, and there was a finger-sized magic crystal in the bag!
"Wow, is this what the noble lords and mages often call the magic crystal?" Jim wanted to touch the magic crystal, but Daniel wouldn't let him.
Daniel usually saw that Jim was very honest and good, and he had helped him before, so he came over to tell Jim the news, and by the way, he also showed off his gains. But if you want to touch that baby, there is no way, this magic crystal is the basis for his family to rely on for the rest of his life.
Jim withdrew his hand in embarrassment, and at the same time he saw that there was still some blood on the hedrons, and he seemed to understand something.
"By the way, when you go to get something, you have to avoid others, especially this kind of good thing, we ourselves may use a knife to grab it. Okay, I'll go first, and you must not tell anyone that I have this thing. Daniel raised his spear before seeing Jim nod in agreement before turning to leave.
When Jim heard the words "his own eyes may be snatched with a knife", what appeared in his heart was the blood stains left on Daniel's bloodstained spear and the magic crystal, and when Daniel was about to leave, he almost wanted to ask him if the magic crystal was snatched from "his own people", but the excitement before seeing Daniel leave still gave up......
Jim stood for a moment in the darkness of the night, looking back at the brightly lit barracks of the aristocratic banquet not far away, and he remembered that in order to erect a tall hall for banquets, a kid soldier who was only a teenager fell from the roof of the banquet hall and broke his leg......
Jim looked further into the barracks, it was dark, there were few places with lights, he was still some distance from the barracks, but he could still smell the peculiar stench of the barracks, they had only been stationed here for a few days......
Jim sighed, and finally his feet moved, and he went to his barracks, put on a half-body leather armor made of unknown leather, which smelled of some sourness, then put on a greasy leather helmet with the same sour smell, and then took a spear with a somewhat blunt tip, and prepared to go in the direction of Versailles. Jim stood at the door of the barracks where there were no soldiers, thought for a moment, turned back and went into the barracks again, found the bag that his wife had prepared for himself before the troops were assembled, carried it in his arms, and went out again.
This time Jim never looked back, and when he thought that this thing was now all his belongings, except for a small thin quilt, he laughed, and walked towards the fortress of Versailles in the dark.
Jim wasn't worried about being shot in the dark of night, because the nobles didn't have any sentries on duty on the road. He didn't have to worry about going in the wrong direction, because the tall walls of Versailles were also very conspicuous in the dark, and if he went in the wrong direction and walked in the direction he came, he would be stopped by the most elite private soldiers arranged by the nobles......
After walking for more than twenty minutes, Jim finally walked to the south gate of Versailles, straightened the thin leather helmet and half-leather armor that he couldn't defend against anything, and then walked directly into the depths of Versailles. Jim could easily guess that the only way to get farther away from the gates was to have a chance to find what he needed, and that he had arrived too late, and the places he had taken had probably already been looted once.
When he reached the other wall of the fortress of Versailles, which was short compared to the gate wall, Jim slowed down, searching for any good thing he could find, even some of the corpses that had obviously been turned over, he touched them again. From the city gate wall to here, Jim has seen a lot of corpses along the way, most of them are civilians in Versailles, and there are also a few noble private soldiers like him, it seems that there is no big battle, and the dead noble private soldiers should have met a powerful person among the civilians.
The corpses of the civilians were looted to the point that only a strip of cloth was left on their bodies, and some were even completely naked, but Jim, a noble private soldier, was still there, maybe the looters didn't look down on the thin leather helmets and half-body leather armor on the private soldiers. Jim was glad that at least he wouldn't have no cover when he died.
Suddenly, Jim was attracted by a roar, and he saw that many of the noble privates that Ben had been searching the streets were heading in that direction, and he himself ran after him.
Not too far from the narrow walls, Jim saw the second Imperial soldier dressed in the area of the fortress of Versailles, the first being a prisoner of the officer named James, and the second being just a soldier. I saw that this national soldier was well-equipped, wearing armor that looked more solid than the elite aristocratic private soldiers, and the upper and lower parts of the body were covered by armor as long as they did not affect his movements! He was holding a one-handed shield in his left hand and a single-handed knife in his right hand, and Jim vaguely saw that there seemed to be a short-shot crossbow on his waist!
At this time, this national soldier was angrily scolding at a group of people: "Are you still from the empire? You scumbags! Don't even let go of children!"
Jim looked at the group and saw a little girl a few years old, dressed like him, with a spear in his hand!
"Vomit ......" Jim vomited directly when he saw this situation, he didn't understand this situation at all, why would a private soldier like himself be so ruthless to the little girl?
"Haha! You cowardly national soldiers, what's the matter, you didn't guard the city gate before, and now you blame us?" This aristocratic private soldier who killed the little girl with red eyes, saw the national soldier, and did not regret or fear it at all, and even after seeing the national soldier wearing equipment, his eyes became even more red!
Jim vomited for a moment, then looked up at the national soldier, and found that the national soldier had already made an attacking movement, he put his shield half-erect in front of him, held the single knife in his right hand horizontally, and began to run towards the group of noble private soldiers step by step. And Ben was surrounded by many other aristocratic private soldiers, but they, like Jim, did not move, although they did not move, but when they saw the equipment of the national soldiers, Jim felt that they were also a little impatient.
"I, a detachment of soldiers from the Versailles Rangers, Jim, in the name of being a human being, will exterminate and judge you!" the soldier sped up to run, revealing his name as he ran, and Jim discovered that the soldier's name was the same as his.